Which sentence uses a present participle as part of a verb (rather than as an adjective or noun)?

A) Running out of the house, the little girl called out to her friends.
B) The two brothers started a flourishing business in the district.
C) The crowd was laughing at the stand-up comedian's routine.
D) The tilting roof seemed like it was about to fall on us!

Read these excerpts. lincoln's "gettysburg address." it is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. whitman's "o captain! my captain! ". exult, o shores, and ring, o bells! but i, with mournful tread, walk the deck my captain lies, fallen cold and dead. which rhetorical appeal do both excerpts use? logos: the use of logic to convince the audience pathos: the use of emotional appeals to affect the audience’s feelings brevity: writing or speaking that is short, brief, and to the point ethos: the use of authority to persuade the audience to act the right way